Here’s An Interview With Tyler Clementi’s (Now) Gay-Friendly Parents

June 29, 2012

Tyler Clementi committed suicide by throwing himself off the George Washington Bridge after a classmate streamed video over the Internet of him making out with another man. His uber-Christian parents made him feel "rejected" for being gay.

For the first time since the man who drove their son to suicide was released from jail (after a laughable 20 days behind bars), the parents of Tyler Clementi are speaking out.

Jane and Joe Clementi, and his older brother James, sat down with NBC’s Lester Holt to talk about their son’s tragic death (Tyler, for anyone who doesn’t already know, threw himself off the George Washington Bridge after a classmate, Dharun Ravi, streamed video over the Internet of Clementi making out with another man). Turns out, the devoutly Christian (read: fagala-phobic) Clementis have since changed their tune when it comes to homosexuality being a sin.